Festival Partir en livre: on the road to vacation, stories ahead!

Will we soon have to sound the death knell for reading and books? Will the screens give them a final knockout? While, according to a recent study by the National Book Center (CNL), 1 in 5 young people do not read at all and the under 25s spend 6 times more time on screens than in a book, the fight for reading seems like a foregone conclusion… Really? Reading does not disappear, it changes. Manga, graphic novels and audiobooks are gaining momentum among teens. As long as you form good habits from an early age!

It is with the desire to carry these new trends and spread the pleasure of reading among the youngest that the 9th edition of the Partir en livre festival will take place, from June 22 to July 23, on the theme of freedom, everywhere in metropolitan and overseas France.

Like her effigy this year, Mortelle Adèle, and her strong character, we will read what we want, as we want! Children will be in the spotlight, with playful readings, workshops, meetings with authors and artists - including the godfathers and godmother of the event, Éric Antoine, Antoine Dole and Diane Le Feyer. Summer will be tasty!

Like readers, books are sometimes also mountain dwellers. This summer, the Adrienne-Monnier municipal library will organize a mountain book festival with a fun program: giant goose game, dictation in song, parent-child graphic workshops, book hunt and a show by the Libre company.

July 2 at the Adrienne-Monnier municipal library, LesDéserts (Savoie).

This month of July, the City of Science and Industry invites you to combine relaxation and creation around the character of the elephant Pomelo. As you walk between the library and the park, you can enjoy the exhibition dedicated to him, as well as to his illustrator, Benjamin Chaud, from the Imagier Vagabond. And, after a nap in the grass, a ball game or reading aloud, it's a writing workshop for children with Ramona Badescu, the author of Pomelo, or a philosophical and creative workshop with Philomoos around the freedom theme. In short: happiness, art and holidays!

From June 23 to July 22, at the Library of the City of Science and Industry, at 30, avenue Corentin-Cariou (Paris 19th).

Authors, publishers and artists will stop off with nomadic libraries in three villages in the Brionnais in a spirit of eclecticism and creativity. From readings aloud to a slogan creation workshop by artist Céline Thoué, to a show by the Collectif 36 company, which questions equality between girls and boys, this summer will be under the sign of freedom. Readers will be able to immerse themselves in a classic as well as in a manga or a gamebook, according to their desires. Meetings, finally, with the author and publisher Frédéric Magnan, will complete a friendly and festive atmosphere!

June 28, and July 5, 8, 9 and 12 in the municipalities of Chauffailles, Mussy-sous-Dun, LaChapelle-sous-Dun and La Clayette (Saône-et-Loire).

Pataphysics - science of imaginary solutions - is in the spotlight this summer on the roads of Côtes-d'Armor (22) and Ille-et-Vilaine (35). On bicycles, a troupe of authentic pataphysicians will pay homage to Alfred Jarry through a joyfully protean performance that will last 5 days and stretch over 160 km. Led by Richard Gaitet and his team of fellow artists, authors and journalists, they will celebrate in the towns along their route, with texts and sporting and artistic performances inspired by the writer's universe, an offbeat thought with a refreshing taste of freedom. A podcast and a film will also allow you to relive this explosive event, for an endless summer!

The event will stop in the municipalities of Brittany Saint-Brieuc, Montcontour, Dinan-Becherel, Rennes and Thorigne-Fouillard, in Côtes-d'Armor and Ille-et-Vilaine from July 1 to 5.

Around the books reigns a perfume of freedom. This is the idea that presides throughout the month of July at the Le Neuf bookstore, in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. Among a series of workshops and readings for all ages of youth will take place a ball open to all, in partnership with the artist and local singer Jean-Michel Rey, meetings and dedications with artists and authors, especially Mathieu Guibé. Fiction also extends to images, in a temporary exhibition in collaboration with Éditions MeMo, and an encounter with an author and a photographer from the region, in the 100 % Vosgien album.

From June 22 to July 23, in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (Vosges).

Souleuvre-en-Bocage is transformed for a month into a bookish and playful oasis, to accommodate the traveling Bibli'ininérante and the traveling bookstore Mots Hameaux. During the stopover, young and old will be invited to share their reading during writing and drawing workshops and games that the nomadic libraries will organize with the network of libraries in the municipality. This stage will also be the occasion for meetings, with the author Guillaume Nail, and animations around the comic strip, with the author Loïc Clément and the illustrator Anne Montel.

From June 24 to July 22, at the municipal library of Souleuvre-en-Bocage (Calvados).

As part of the policies of the city of Lille, the association Du vent dans les mots is settling in the streets of the south of the city to offer readings and creative workshops with the inhabitants of the district. This will be an opportunity to take advantage of a collection of children's literature, albums, stories, books to sing about. Speakers and a youth artist will come to offer workshops. He'll push books at the foot of buildings!

July 5, 6, 7 and 8 in the Lille Sud district, in Lille (Nord).

Do you know that you can also read with your ears? The little ones will be able to discover it through a morning of multisensory awakening offered by the libraries of the Pays des Achards. The whole family is also invited to repeat this tasty experience thanks to an ephemeral "reading orchestra", supervised by an author and a director, but also a "mosaic" work of readings aloud reproduced in public and a web radio. This summer, tune in to the books!

The ephemeral open-air libraries will be in the town of Achards on June 30 and July 9, 12, 19 and 22 (Vendée).

Books, frescoes, comics, children from schools and summer camps in Marseille will be able to have a great time this year! It will be an opportunity to meet authors and illustrators, to express your freedom with the artist Flo Kanban or to make a comic strip with the author-illustrator Clément Baloup. For Marseille readers of all ages, the parks will be taken over by the Lire au parc festival, which will organize numerous writing and creative workshops such as meetings with authors and illustrators. Don't miss the Marseille album, from the Partir en livre series!

In Marseille, from June 22 to July 21 (Bouches-du-Rhône).

Everything starts with books in Reunion: in the streets, in schools in priority areas of the city, people will talk about books in all directions. Reunion schoolchildren will be able to meet authors, publishers, librarians and take part in discovery workshops. More broadly, this festive event is aimed at everyone, organized by the Livr'anlèr association: awareness of reading and the purpose of books, provision of a cultural offer and reading funds .

From June 22 to July 23, in LaRéunion.

For those who don't want to wait for the summer, or who want to extend it to the start of the next school year, Partir en livre and its partners offer you a bibliography to read all year round. Designed to address both toddlers and teenagers, and to promote reading in all its forms, there is general literature (Le Grand Meaulnes, by Alain-Fournier) as well as manga ( the essential Attack on Titan, by Hajime Isayama), children's literature (Adieu Blanche-Neige, the latest book by Beatrice Alemagna) and documentary books (among others, on the life of the philosopher Henry David Thoreau, by Élisabeth Combres).

Poetry is not to be outdone, with anthologies by Rimbaud or Éluard and collections for all audiences (including Bus 83, by Ramona Badescu and Benoît Guillaume). To orient itself in this large selection of works, most of which have been published recently, the festival offers recommendations from its partner organizations, such as the National Book Council or the Eurêkoi information service. There's something for everyone! Find more books and reading tips on the Partir en livre website: départ-en-livre.fr